The Original Pancake House — Restaurant in Redmond

Ah, the Original Pancake House—where syrup flows like a sweet river, and waffles are supposed to be warm, not architectural materials. 🥞

Let's break down this breakfast drama, shall we?

Act I: The Great Waitperson The curtain rises, and there you are, hungry and hopeful. Enter the Great Waitperson, stage left. They glide over like a pancake-flipping ninja, taking your order with a smile. You're thinking, "This is it! The breakfast of champions!" Applause! 🎉

Intermission: The Waffle Debacle Fast forward to your return visit. The spotlight shifts to a new character: The Hated Waiter. Dun dun dun! His eyes narrow as he approaches your table. You can practically hear the ominous music. Your waffle arrives—a cold, lifeless brick. It's like they served you a piece of the Berlin Wall with a side of disappointment. The eggs? Well, they've been through more reheats than a B-list actor's career. You contemplate life choices. "Did I offend the breakfast gods? Is this karma for that time I stole a syrup bottle from IHOP?" The audience gasps! 😱

Act II: The Mug Saga You summon courage and ask to buy some mugs. But oh, the waiter's annoyance! It's as if you requested the Crown Jewels or asked for a unicorn ride. The waiter returns, carrying the mugs like they're fragile Fabergé eggs. But wait! He also brings a plastic to-go bag. Because nothing says "premium mug protection" like a flimsy bag that wouldn't survive a light breeze. You watch in horror as he drops the cups onto the table. The sound echoes through the room. The mugs wince. You wince. The bag? It's like, "I signed up for sandwiches, not this!" The suspense builds! 🙀

Grand Finale: The Last Day? As the curtain falls, you wonder: Was this waiter auditioning for a role in "Grumpy Waitstaff: The Musical"? Did he wake up and choose "maximum grumpiness" as his vibe? You sip lukewarm coffee from your chipped mug, contemplating life's mysteries. Maybe this was the Fellow's Last Day—his swan song before retiring to a cave where he'll grumble about syrup forever. Or perhaps he's secretly a pancake-hating spy, sent to sabotage breakfast joints one waffle at a time. Either way, you exit the restaurant, vowing to write a review. And here we are! 📝

In summary: The Original Pancake House—where waffles are cold, mugs are endangered, and waiters moonlight as grumpy wizards. Bon...

It was my 1st time here. The menu looked great though pricy for breakfast. We were excited to try the food.

We ordered 2 omelets with potatoes and a side order country fried steak with gravy on the side. He ordered the sweet pepper omlette, mine was corned beef hash with sharp cheddar omlette.

We got our potatoes 1st. Just potatoes on side plates. 5min later just the steak came out with gravy all over it. My partner has a nitrate allergy so we had to send it back to be remade with gravy on the side. 5 min later just my partners omlette came out.

So now we had potatoes and one omlette. 3 to 5 min later my omlette came out and it was under done enough raw egg was oozing out. The corned beef looked like the stuff you would get out of a can. The corned beef was raw and mushy looking and you couldn't even see any peppers or onions in it. For an $18 omlette the CB should have looked fresh and not like canned. I have literally had better at a Shari's.

We the finally got the steak which wasnt bad but I tried the gravy on the side and it tasted like that powdered mix you get at the grocery store.

We saw the bus people more than our server and in all of that time they only managed to get us one refill of coffee. I understand being understaffed and would have been willing to be more understanding if the food was good and things came out mostly together, but this was not reasonable service even for being understaffed. Not even within the realm of other just as understaffed restaurants of both higher and lower quality.

The tab came to $57 on this joke of a meal. The server was using an IPad to take the order so there was really no reason for the steak to be wrong after we told him gravy on the side 3 times.

The pictures are after I got leftovers home as I didn't remember to take any while there. But one picture is the hash omlette opened up so you could see the "hash" inside it.

Tl:Dr the prices are the same if you were buying room service at a hotel, and the quality was worse than a chain diner charging half as much. The service compares to 3am stoned taco...

We used to eat at "this place" all the time, but it appears to have moved locations and with it left behind everything that made it enjoyable. The new location, in Redmond Town Center, was an immense disappointment in terms of both food and service. This is not the same place that earned good reviews in the past.

The red flag should have been the menu having no hash browns and no free coffee refills, at a breakfast diner.

The coffee took a long time to arrive. When the coffee did finally arrive, the tray it was brought on was covered very clearly with a large amount of white, obvious, spilled milk. Our server placed all of the mugs on our table, sliding them to us, covering our table with milk and then hurried off. We had to flag someone down to ask for napkins. Among the four of us, no one enjoyed a single aspect of the meal. All the items were overpriced with very little actual food. They came on massive plates (likely from the old location which served a lot of food per plate) and the food looked pretty lonely and sad on them. Completely unseasoned potatoes. They were soft, not crispy at all, and may have at some point been in the same room as seasoning but none of us could detect any on them. Didn't seem like even salt and pepper. The syrup on the pancakes was runny and tasted cheap. Corned beef hash was weirdly very, very sweet, was mushy, not crispy. Was slopped rather awkwardly on a plate alone, and had to remind the server to bring the eggs. Breakfast sandwich was very salty. Two orders of egg omelets, both had hard cheese exteriors and chewy-hard insides. Seemed overcooked, bland.

Service, food, prices, all were below even basic expectations. They have also removed the vegetarian faux meat options that the old...